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Old 05-13-2010, 07:50 AM
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Chuck Patterson posted these on Facebook, titled "Paddling with a teenage whale."
Tommy Donnely SUP Co. paddling with his pal.





The Whale is about 30' long and unfortunately has a couple lines and cork floats tangled around his tail which is probably why it's resting in the harbor.






Chuck added the following on his Facebook page:

"So stoked that the marine mammal specialists from sea world finally cut all the tangeled neting and lines off of the whales's tail and fins. The whale is happy and heading up the coast as we speak. I love happy endings."

More about the assist:

"SeaWorld helps untangle whale off Dana Point

Rescuers try to untangle a rope wrapped around a whale in Dana Point Harbor on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

A Sea World whale disentanglement team is trying to remove long ropes seen dangling from a gray whale that has been swimming near Dana Point harbor.

A California gray whale — entangled in a straitjacket of rope and netting — was freed Wednesday off Dana Point during an often tense, two-hour rescue operation aided by mammal experts from SeaWorld.



Onshore onlookers cheered after a multiagency team cut the whale loose from more than 100 pounds of rope and fishing net that had prevented it from swimming out of a narrow harbor passage.

The whale, believed to be an 18- to 20-foot-long calf, was later spotted in the open sea. Witnesses said it appeared to be heading north, in sync with springtime migratory patterns."
Continued at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...na-point-whal/





I think the whale was inside the breakwater, maybe, of the harbor at Dana Point, CA.
http://www.dana-point-california-liv...ages/point.jpg


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